S7.E14 ∙ Episode #7.14

Four doctors explore ways to give children a head start in life during the early years, when their brains are the most impressionable.

A small Texas town of fewer than five hundred citizens sends their high school girls' basketball team to the state championship playoffs.

In the months leading up to the vote on North Carolina's Amendment One, which would remove legal recognition for all couples that are not a married man and woman, a lesbian couple seeks to understand the personal stories of people on both sides, with the desire to relate as human beings, gain insight into the global gay marriage debate, and start a dialog.

'Conversations with my Aunt', by filmmaker Janis Pugh, is an intimate portrait of her relationship with her Aunt. A relationship bound by the past struggling to survive the present as the effects of Alzheimer's have transformed it to one of carer/patient. Shot over five days the film captures the repetitious routines and unpredictable behaviour caused by Alzheimer's and how coping with everyday care brings conflict, tears and humour to their intense and often surreal relationship.

After losing their husbands as far back as 40 years ago; Rita, Aviva, Lillian, Ruth and Suzanne have found solace and friendship in playing cards.

Yolngu Christmas rituals start in October when the first wolma thunder clouds form, heralding the coming wet season. As the distant rumbling triggers memories of lost loved ones, quiet tears start to flow. So begins a season in which stories brought by missionaries in the mid 20th century provide the basis for a celebration of the cycling transformations of life, death and rebirth - and for claiming the enduring place of the ancestral in the contemporary world. Manapanmirr means being joined or brought together. In this film, what begins as an experiment with using digital media to 'connect cultures through feeling' as director Paul Gurrumuruwuy put it becomes through the very process of image-making a catalyst for vision, innovation and connection for Yolngu themselves.